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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

American double standards and aggression





North Korea confirms submarine launch of new ballistic missile



North Korea test-fired a new, smaller ballistic missile from a submarine, state media confirmed on Wednesday, a move that analysts said could be aimed at more quickly fielding an operational missile submarine.

The statement from state media came a day after South Korea's military reported that it believed North Korea had fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) off its east coast, the latest in a string of North Korean missile tests.

The White House urged North Korea to refrain from further "provocations", with spokesperson Jen Psaki saying on Tuesday the United States remained open to engaging diplomatically with North Korea over its weapons programmes.

Pyongyang so far has rejected those overtures, accusing the United States and South Korea of talking diplomacy while ratcheting up tensions with their own military activities.

The "new-type" SLBM was launched from the same submarine involved in a 2016 test of an older SLBM, North Korea's state news agency KCNA said.

North Korea has a large fleet of ageing submarines, but has yet to deploy operational ballistic missile submarines beyond the experimental Gorae-class boat used in the tests.

Photos released by KCNA appeared to show a thinner, smaller missile than North Korea's earlier SLBM designs, and maybe a previously unseen model first showcased at a defence exhibition in Pyongyang last week.

A smaller SLBM could mean more missiles stored on a single submarine, although with a shorter range, potentially putting nuclear-armed North Korea closer to fielding an operational ballistic missile submarine (SSB).

"Though a smaller North Korea SLBM design could enable more missiles per boat, it could also enable smaller less challenging SSB designs, including easier integration/conversion on pre-existing submarines," Joseph Dempsey, a defence researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said on Twitter.



Still, the development was expected to have only a limited impact on Pyongyang's arsenal until it made more progress on a larger submarine that has been seen under construction.

"It just means they're trying to diversify their submarine launch options," said Dave Schmerler, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California.

"It's an interesting development but with only one submarine in the water that can launch notionally one or two of these it doesn't change much."

The new type SLBM featured advanced control guidance technologies, including "flank mobility and gliding skip mobility," KCNA said.

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kt notes: 

The White House urged North Korea to refrain from further "provocations".

Provoke who?

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Earlier this month:

ARMS CONTROL TODAY

South Korea Tests Submarine-Launched Missile



South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his country's Sept. 15 test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile was not aimed at North Korea, but "can be a clear deterrent to North Korea’s provocations." (Photo by South Korea's Ministry of National Defense)


October 2021


South Korea launched a ballistic missile from a submarine in September, making it the first country without nuclear weapons to develop that capability.

The Defense Ministry in Seoul described the launch as a success and said the missile “accurately hit its target.” The submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) capability is “an important milestone” that will “contribute to realizing a strong national defense and a solid military readiness posture,” according to a Sept. 15 statement.

The SLBM test took place several hours after North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles from a train and four days after it tested a new land-attack cruise missile.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who was present for the launch, said on Sept. 15 that the test was “not a response to North Korea’s provocations.” But he noted that “the reinforcement of our missile capabilities can be a clear deterrent to North Korea’s provocations.”

The missile was tested from South Korea’s domestically built attack submarine, the Dosan An Chang-ho, which was commissioned in August. (See ACT, September 2021.) It is the first of three submarines capable of carrying six ballistic missiles that South Korea plans to deploy. South Korean news outlets reported that the submarine successfully fired an SLBM on Sept. 7, but the South Korean government has only confirmed the Sept. 15 launch. Prior to the submarine launches, South Korea conducted test launches from a submerged barge and from a ground-based test facility. The Defense Ministry said it will conduct further tests before an SLBM is deployed on the Dosan An Chang-ho.

States generally pursue SLBMs in order to provide a survivable, second-strike nuclear capability. Given that South Korea is an ally of the United States and covered by its extended nuclear deterrent, including U.S. SLBMs, it is unclear why South Korea views this capability as necessary and worth the risk of continuing to drive the missile race between North and South Korea.

Defense Department spokesman James Kirby said in a Sept. 20 press briefing that the United States is working closely with South Korea to ensure “complementary military capabilities” that are “commensurate with the continued threats that we see on the peninsula.”

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kt notes:

For double standards USA, her language changed once the 38th degrees parallel North has been crossed. From North Korea 'being provocative', to South Korea 'working closely with the USA to ensure “complementary military capabilities”' the American hypocrisy is nauseating but expected.

And the reason why North Korea has been exhibiting seemingly rather irrational decisions in its military doctrine where arms rather than food have been preferred has actually been its fear of the likelihood of American nuclear attacks. 

American attacks on North Korea are not so fanciful when one considers the USA has on more than one occasion mulled nuking the Koreans, once (in 2017) even calculating she might need 80 nuclear bombs to defeat North Korea.

In Bob Woodward’s book Rage, the author detailed President Trump’s war plans with a particular quote in his the book:

"The Strategic Command in Omaha had carefully reviewed and studied OPLAN 5027 for regime change in North Korea — the U.S. response to an attack that could include the use of 80 nuclear weapons

Note that American invasive interfering insidious phrase again - 'for regime change'.



Number of nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2021

Nuclear powers   Number of nuclear warheads
Russia                   6255
USA                      5,550
China                    350
France                   290
United Kingdom      225
Pakistan                 165
India                     156
Israel                      90 
North Korea             40



16 comments:

  1. No Yankee double standards.

    North Korea has Nuclear bombs and is attempting to perfect it ability to deliver Nukes via submarine launched missiles. City busters.

    South Korea is testing missiles with conventional TNT warheads, typically may be 1 / 100,000 to 1/ 1,000,000 of the power of a nuclear tipped missile.

    What is there to talk about double standards ? Except for pathological Yankee haters.

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    1. States generally pursue SLBMs in order to provide a survivable, second-strike nuclear capability.

      South Korea’s SLBM test comes amid an expansion of the country’s military capabilities and continued debate over the country’s status as a non-nuclear-weapon state. In addition to the SLBM capability, South Korea has increased its military spending under Moon and invested in several new weapons systems.

      Public support for South Korea developing its own nuclear weapons reached a new high in 2020 with 69 percent of the population voicing support, according to a Sept. 13 report from the Asian Institute. Since the institute began polling on this question, support for an indigenous nuclear weapons program was the lowest in 2018, when 55 percent of the population supported the idea.

      In the 2020 poll, 61 percent supported reintroducing U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to the Korean peninsula, a view that one leading candidate for South Korea’s presidential election in March has also endorsed.

      Hong Joon-pyo, a conservative, said that if elected he would support a nuclear sharing agreement with the United States.

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    2. from https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-10/news/south-korea-tests-submarine-launched-missile

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    3. As of today 20th October 2021, North Korea is a nuclear armed nation , which has threatened to Nuke US terrority, Guam, and soon the the US Mainland which will be within range of North Korea's ICBMs.
      The Yanks have understandably told North Korea any use of Nuclear Weapons against US soil- Guam is US soil - will result in North Korea ceasing to exist. No need to elaborate what "Cease to Exist" means.

      South Korea has no nuclear bombs and no nuclear bomb program.

      All you have is prejudices and preconceived opinions against the Yanks and anyone allied with them.

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    4. Wakakakakaka…

      "All you have is prejudices and preconceived opinions against the Yanks and anyone allied with them."

      Haven't an old moneyed mfer, ever thoughts of WHY NKorea needs a nuclear missile program?

      How about deterrent, as mastered by yr uncle Sam?

      Ooop… only demoNcratic nations have right to deterrent in yr f*cked understanding.

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  2. Rocket Man fire missiles, 5000 yo Bully fly fighter jets and nuklear bom capable bombers near Taiwan....but we are worried over Oz wanting to build conventional submarines 10,000 km away from us? How many missiles have Oz ever fired?

    500 yo Bully makes no territorial claim over Southern Seas but when 5000 yo Bully fires hypersonic missile capable of carrying nuklear bom, everybody kowtow to DaGe and make no Meow.

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    China surprises U.S. with hypersonic missile test, FT reports
    Reuters
    Oct 17, 2021

    BEIJING, Oct 17 (Reuters) - China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, showing a capability that caught U.S. intelligence by surprise, the Financial Times reported, citing five unnamed sources.
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    1. 500 yo Bully makes no territorial claim over Southern Seas!!??

      Then, why yr uncle Sam kept intruding into other's backyard?

      For fun?

      For syiok-sendiri world policing?

      For the free & American ways?

      Take yr pick!

      Ooop… don't forgetting that forever theme of WASP domination instilled in yr f*cking training.

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  3. Should the world just watch while Rocket Man starves his countrymen? Shall we all say "let's not interfere with their domestic affairs, let North Koreans decide for themselves"....like Afghanistan....let Telly-ban do as they please....? So let Rocket Man do as he pleases.....

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56685356

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    Kim Jong-un warns of North Korea crisis similar to deadly 90s famine
    9 April 2021

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has told citizens to prepare for hard times ahead, following warnings from rights groups that the country faces dire food shortages and economic instability.

    Speaking at a party conference, Mr Kim appeared to compare the situation to the devastating 1990s famine, estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands.

    In a rare admission of looming hardship, the authoritarian leader of the single-party state on Thursday called on officials to "wage another, more difficult 'Arduous March' in order to relieve our people of the difficulty, even a little".

    The Arduous March is a term used by North Korea officials to refer to the country's struggle during the 1990s famine, when the fall of the Soviet Union left North Korea without crucial aid. The total number of North Koreans who starved to death is not known, but estimates range up to 3 million.

    "It is not unusual for Kim Jong-un to talk about difficulties and hardship but this time the language is quite stark and that's different," Colin Zwirko, North Korea analyst at NK News, told the BBC.

    "Last October for instance, he gave a speech where he said that he himself failed to bring about enough changes. But mentioning explicitly that he's decided to carry out a new Arduous March is not something he has said before."

    Earlier this week, Mr Kim had warned the country faced the "worst-ever situation" and "unprecedentedly numerous challenges".

    There have been warnings for months that the people of North Korea are struggling.

    Reports of hardship appear to be coming especially from towns near the Chinese border, where smuggling would have been a huge earner for many.

    The price of corn, the staple diet for most of rural North Korea, has reportedly fluctuated enormously and at times a kilogram of corn has cost more than a month's wages.

    Lina Yoon, a researcher from Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in a recent report citing unnamed contacts in the country that "there is barely any food going into the country from China".

    "There are so many more beggars, some people died from hunger in the border area, and there's no soap, toothpaste, or batteries," she wrote.
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    1. Who STARVES the NKoreans, blurred mfer?

      None other than the standard US proposed islandization of his 'disliked' NKorea!

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  4. If 500 yo Bully had not defended South Korea against the North (who were sapoted by Soviets and 5000 yo Bully) the Southerners would not have built an economy the size of Russia today and give the world K-pop, Samsung and Squid Game....ask any Northener if they would like to live in the South....but never mind, we outsiders should stay out of NK domestic affairs right....? Let them starve if that is what they want.

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    1. Ooop… the blurred mfer is regurgitating its f*cked eugenic theme AGAIN!

      Wakakakakaka…

      Let them starve if that is what they want - when the final chips r down in yr f*cked land of free & easy!

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    2. To clarify, the war was started as a civil war between the the North and the South. In the beginning North was winning and threaten to take control of the whole Korean peninsula, a scenario which US could not stomach as communism would be too close to their base in Japan. US led by General MacArthur together with the UN troops went in to defend the South and quickly reversed the situation. This time the US and the UN troops wanted to take over the North instead. China then warned the US not to cross the 38th parallel but MacArthur ignored and the joined force quickly reached close to the Yalu River, the boundary dividing China and North Korea. Mao, not wanting to have war within China territory, ordered the intervention, so it was not China supporting North Korea to invade South Korea to begin with. The rest is history. One significant issue of China intervention is China capturing of US pilots which enable China to exchange the return of Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, which lead to China progress and strength today, a position no longer in fear of being bully by US ever, again.

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    3. If 500 yo Bully had not come to the aid of SK in 1950 all of Korea would be communist and starved under Kim 1, 2 and 3.

      Today my wife has a Samsung phone, my children love K-pop, my neighbour drives a Hyundai and I watched Squid Game on Netflix last week.

      South Korean ekonomi is same size as former komunis Russia, even though it has zero natural resources and their per capita income is multiple times Malay-sia. All this the Southerners achieved through their own hard work of course, but under the bodyguard protection of 500 yo Bullyland.

      What have the Northerners achieved under Soviet/Russia/5000 yo Bullyland's "non-interference" protection?

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    4. Don't waste yr time to teach these mfers REAL causalities of historical events!

      They r fed fully on the American ways of shits!

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  5. Just another US nuclear sub resurfaces in the SCS near Scarborough Shoal on 22Oct2021.

    The action was captured by Chinese satellite. Meanwhile, the US Navy has maintained full silence!

    This is the 2nd US sub resurfaced due to unknown reason.

    Usually, subs, especially nuclear sub, don't do resurfacing unless it's underwater navigation has encountered problem. In military term, it means the sub has 'surrendered'. Otherwise, it would be destroyed & dunked beyond the depth of the DVD.

    Mmm… bring to mind, what causes these US subs to keep resurfacing in SCS. What have they encountered?

    Another unknown collision?

    EM pulse terminates it's undersea navigation ability?

    Wakakakaka…. Uncle Sam had to reinvent his SVS undersea tour of duty! Better keep his allies informed too!

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  6. Just another US nuclear sub resurfaces in the SCS near Scarborough Shoal on 22Oct2021.

    The action was captured by Chinese satellite. Meanwhile, the US Navy has maintained full silence!

    This is the 2nd US sub resurfaced due to unknown reason.

    Usually, subs, especially nuclear sub, don't do resurfacing unless its underwater navigation has encountered problem. In military term, surfacing means the sub has 'surrendered'. Otherwise, it would be destroyed & sunked beyond the depth of the SCS.

    Mmm… bring to mind, what causes these US subs to keep resurfacing in SCS. What have they encountered?

    Another unknown collision?

    EM pulse terminates its undersea navigation ability?

    Wakakakaka…. Uncle Sam has to reinvent his SCS underwater tour of duty!

    Better keep his allies informed too!

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